| Race details | ||
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| Race 7 of 11 in the 1969 Formula One season | ||
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| Date | August 3, 1969 | |
| Official name | XXXI Großer Preis von Deutschland | |
| Location | Nürburgring, Nürburg, West Germany | |
| Course | Permanent racing facility 22.835 km (14.189 mi) | |
| Distance | 14 laps, 319.690 km (198.646 mi) | |
| Pole position | ||
| Driver |  Jacky Ickx
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Brabham-Ford |
| Time | 7:42.1 | |
| Fastest lap | ||
| Driver | Jacky Ickx
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Brabham-Ford |
| Time | 7:43.8 on lap 7 | |
| Podium | ||
| First | Jacky Ickx
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Brabham-Ford |
| Second |  Jackie Stewart
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Matra-Ford |
| Third |  Bruce McLaren
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McLaren-Ford |
Bruce McLaren driving the McLaren M7C during the race.
Mario Andretti driving a Lotus 63 at the 1969 German Grand Prix.
The 1969 German Grand Prix was a Formula One race held at Nürburgring on 3 August 1969 with Formula Two cars competing by invitation. It was the seventh round of the 1969 World Championship for Drivers. The F2 entrants were not eligible for points in the World Championship.
Report[]
Gerhard Mitter was killed during a practice session for this race at the Schwedenkreuz curve. He was practicing for BMW's 269 F2 project. As a suspension or steering failure was suspected, the BMW team with Hubert Hahne and Dieter Quester withdrew from the race, as did Mitter's teammate at Porsche (and close friend), Hans Herrmann.
Mario Andretti drove the 4WD Lotus 63 for very few laps in practice. The heavy fuel load for the race made the car ground out in lap 1 after a jump at Wippermann, causing a crash that also took out Vic Elford, whose car flipped upside down and landed in the trees. Elford broke his arm in 3 places.
In the race, Jacky Ickx had a very poor start which dropped him down to 9th, but he eventually passed the entire field over 3 laps, and he and Jackie Stewart battled for 4 laps until Ickx passed Stewart at the first corner, the Sudkurve. Stewart held on but then gear selection problems began to slow him and he dropped away, leaving Ickx in a dominant position. Piers Courage had an accident at Breidscheid when he slipped on some oil and crashed into a ditch next to the Adenauer bridge. Luckily, he was unhurt.
This was the last Formula One race at the Nürburgring before it was rebuilt and fitted with Armco barriers for the 1971 race.
Classification[]
Note: The race was run with both Formula One and Formula Two cars running together. Formula Two entrants are denoted by a pink background.
Qualifying[]
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | Jacky Ickx
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Brabham-Ford | 7:42.1 | — |
| 2 | 7 | Jackie Stewart
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Matra-Ford | 7:42.4 | +0.3 |
| 3 | 2 |  Jochen Rindt
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Lotus-Ford | 7:48.0 | +5.9 |
| 4 | 11 |  Jo Siffert
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Lotus-Ford | 7:50.3 | +9.2 |
| 5 | 9 |  Denny Hulme
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McLaren-Ford | 7:52.8 | +10.7 |
| 6 | 12 | Vic Elford
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McLaren-Ford | 7:54.8 | +12.7 |
| 7 | 17 | Piers Courage
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Brabham-Ford | 7:56.1 | +14.0 |
| 8 | 10 | Bruce McLaren
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McLaren-Ford | 7:56.5 | +14.4 |
| 9 | 1 | Graham Hill
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Lotus-Ford | 7:57.0 | +14.9 |
| 10 | 8 |  Jean-Pierre Beltoise
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Matra-Ford | 8:00.3 | +18.2 |
| 11 | 3 |  Mario Andretti
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Lotus-Ford | 8:15.4 | +33.3 |
| 12 | 15 | Jackie Oliver
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BRM-Ford | 8:16.2 | +34.1 |
| 13 | 16 |  Jo Bonnier
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Lotus-Ford | 8:35.0 | +52.9 |
Race[]
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | Jacky Ickx
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Brabham-Ford | 14 | 1:49:55.4 | 1 | 9 |
| 2 | 7 | Jackie Stewart
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Matra-Ford | 14 | + 57.7 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | 10 | Bruce McLaren
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McLaren-Ford | 14 | + 3:21.6 | 8 | 4 |
| 4 | 1 | Graham Hill
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Lotus-Ford | 14 | + 3:58.8 | 9 | 3 |
| 5 | 26 | Henri Pescarolo
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Matra-Ford | 14 | +7:11.0 | 13 | |
| 6 | 29 | Richard Attwood
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Brabham-Ford | 13 | +1 Lap | 20 | |
| 7 | 20 |  Kurt Ahrens
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Brabham-Ford | 13 | +1 Lap | 19 | |
| 8 | 22 | Rolf Stommelen
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Lotus-Ford | 13 | +1 Lap | 22 | |
| 9 | 31 | Peter Westbury
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Brabham-Ford | 13 | +1 Lap | 18 | |
| 10 | 30 | Xavier Perrot
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Brabham-Ford | 13 | +1 Lap | 24 | |
| 11 | 11 | Jo Siffert
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Lotus-Ford | 12 | Suspension | 4 | 2 |
| 12 | 8 | Jean-Pierre Beltoise
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Matra-Ford | 12 | Suspension | 10 | 1 |
| Ret | 9 | Denny Hulme
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McLaren-Ford | 11 | Transmission | 5 | |
| Ret | 15 | Jackie Oliver
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BRM-Ford | 11 | Oil leak | 16 | |
| Ret | 2 | Jochen Rindt
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Lotus-Ford | 10 | Ignition | 3 | |
| Ret | 28 | François Cevert
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Tecno-Ford | 9 | Crown Wheel | 14 | |
| Ret | 27 | Johnny Servoz-Gavin
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Matra-Ford | 6 | Engine | 12 | |
| Ret | 16 | Jo Bonnier
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Lotus-Ford | 4 | Fuel leak | 23 | |
| Ret | 17 | Piers Courage
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Brabham-Ford | 1 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret | 12 | Vic Elford
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McLaren-Ford | 0 | Accident | 6 | |
| Ret | 3 | Mario Andretti
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Lotus-Ford | 0 | Accident | 15 | |
| DNS | 14 | John Surtees
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BRM | - | Non Starter | 11 | |
| DNS | 24 | Gerhard Mitter
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BMW | - | Fatal Accident in practice | 25 | |
| DNS | 23 | Hubert Hahne
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BMW | - | Non Starter | 17 | |
| DNS | 25 | Dieter Quester
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BMW | - | Non Starter | 21 | |
| DNS | 21 | Hans Herrmann
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Lotus-Ford | - | Non Starter | - |
Notes[]
- Pole position: Jacky Ickx - 7:42.1
- Fastest lap: Jacky Ickx - 7:43.8 on lap 7
Standings after the race[]
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. Only the best 5 results from the first 6 rounds and the best 4 results from the last 5 rounds counted towards the Championship. Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored.
References[]
- Lang, Mike (1982). Grand Prix! Vol 2. Haynes Publishing Group. pp. 100–101.
- "The Official Formula 1 website". http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1969/543/. Retrieved 2008-01-17.
- "Formula One World". http://www.motorsport-stats.com/f1/history/1969/germany.html. Retrieved 2008-01-17.
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